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Too many indie sales! THERE ARE TOO MANY INDIE SALES. Some of us poor PC journalists need to have dinner you know, but noooooo, here comes another announcement about bargain-priced electronic entertainments of most excellent quality. Back to the internet with you, Meer! This time around, the good tidings of money-saving are the third Indie Royale collection, aka The Really Big Bundle, and it’s a bit of a cracker.
The contents:

Yours currently for as low as £2.56, but that minimum will rise as more people buy the pack. Or you could pay more than the minimum, and thus lower the price for other purchasers. In either case, get thee hither.

Also: “For this bundle, both already purchased blind pre-orders and those who drop the price during the bundle will also receive a bonus ‘thank you’ in the form of Fez composer Disasterpeace’s chiptune concept music album ‘Rise Of The Obsidian Interstellar’. (In addition, all Bundle buyers should check back towards the end of the bundle for further bonuses from the creators of the games included in this pack.)”

@InternetBatman: Unfortunately with indie royale, they’re mostly carrying windows-only games, so I look them up and then realize they aren’t going to run on the mac I have — that said, when they’re cross platform, I typically buy them piecemeal at higher prices. Sometimes if they have a silly low price like 5 bucks, I buy two copies.

As Steam keys they are “one use only” so can’t imagine they’re really going to have a problem with it, particularly as it’s not being done for profit and probably results in more sales longer term across their offers.

I don’t know, I was expecting… something more. The name implied really big bundle, and well… yeah. On the other hand, it’s still probably pretty good bundle, but there’s not really that many games that interest me. I might’ve bought this bundle if Cthulhu/Death of Breath had also Linux-versions. Which is actually why I prefer Humble Bundle.

The names for IndieRoyale’s bundles seem pretty disjoint from the bundles’ contents. Remember the “Difficult Second Bundle”? I think this one’s called “Really Big” because of “Really Big Sky”. Goodness knows what the Alpha Fund bundle will have.

I was expecting a lot more games too. If i remember the origin bundle before it was unveiled it looked like tehre were about 10 games under the bundle as opposed to the ‘difficult’ second bundle. I am pretty sure they are ninjaing some kind of change and the original plan was to have a literally big bundle to buy.

yeah that looks like 7 games i admit to that, but they really very surely said the ‘really big’ referred to one of the games (though i think only when they made it available for preorder).
then again i really didn’t see it until i read that on a forum so hmm.

It’s an incredible deal either way and you never know if there will not be 2 games added so it will have that many games (i don’t really think they restructured the bundle though, as mentioned the names arereally tongue-in-cheekish )

Eufloria is a fun little game for anyone who wants it. I would recommend that and Cthulu. I’m not getting this one because I already have the games I want. Also, I think I actually liked Eufloria more when it was Dyson. The final level had such a great back and forth. The combat was a bit more fluid.

@bsplines What I meant with “the non-steam thing” is exactly that; this is the only way to get it on Steam, and before this bundle was announced, there was no way to get it on Steam; and I wanted it on Steam.

Cthulhu Saves the World and Eufloria would each be worth more than the minimum price alone. Together, $3.65 is a steal. The other two seem like pretty lukewarm “indie” type titles – a twin stick shooter and an RPG that “combines elements of poker and card RPG mechanics” in combat (Jesus Christ, I wonder who came up with that one), but hey, they’re just gravy at that price.

Seriously, with all the bundles, I keep forgetting what I’ve bought, what I’ve remembered to redeem in Steam, and what is just lying idle in my jumbled inbox.

Not that I’m complaining, of course, this is brilliant, and I will continue to buy every one of them, to support the effort and the cause. I need to hire someone to play all the games, though. Third world problem indeed.

Really annoyed and disappointed by this. I preordered this basically on the name “Really Big Bundle”, expecting some significant content or something, and instead get some games I have no interest in at all. Humble Bumble consistently gets far higher quality, more interesting indie games.

Also the idea of “minimums” is kinda dumb. Having a minimum, especially a not insignificant one as Indie Royale does, encourages people to view that as THE asking price and just pay that. “Pay us at least X” instead of “Pay what you think this awesome stuff is worth”, with a guilt trip/captcha check for very low inputs.

Don’t think I’m going to be getting the next Royale bundle unless it’s especially good. I feel pretty burned on this one. Especially since I didn’t know it was live until I saw this post; they didn’t bother emailing me to let me know the games I paid for ahead of time were available to download. Dick move, Indie Royale.

You ordered a bundle of unknown games for VERY little money and you’re not happy why again??

I’m guessing ‘Really Big’ refers to the (frankly excellent) Really Big Sky and not the copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum you were hoping for…

Tell you what tho – since you paid less than someone wanting the bundle now, offer your codes for that ptice and then you’ve lost nothing and we can reduce the world unhappiness level by a small amount :)

I’m sorry if this is going to sound harsh to the devs, but to be perfect fair, it’s not that much of a great deal. How many of these games could be easily confused with free flash games, if not for the better graphics? How many of them are you even remotely interested in playing? Sure, there are exceptions, which for me would be Sanctum and Gemini Rue, but that’s about it. Getting Mass Effect 2 or Fallout: New Vegas for twice the price, -that- is an amazing deal. Those are massive games given out for literary nothing. This, however, is just donations.

I don’t think comparisons to the Humble Bundles are fair at least concerning the games (not how they are run). The Humble “Indie” Bundle pretty much only secures high profile games which have already done their numbers and are well known (hence why they can afford to give to charity as well). The only game I’ve heard of here is Really Big Sky so I am glad that Indie Royale exists. It certainly feels more grassroots.

yah i’m sorry but all of the royal indie games are pretty ‘high profile’ too…out of the 3 bundles there was 1 game i hadn’t heard about.
this is not about being mean to you but you being mean to these lovely games.

Am I the only one who found Eufloria boring? Mind you, it’s yet another bundle where nothing actually appeals. A couple of eight bit wannabe’s and a generic arcade shooter? Yeah, I’d pay for them. If I somehow found myself back in the eighties …

Glad you asked. The part where you call a game you’ve never played “crap” is the part I am having a hard time understanding. I mean, if you aren’t interested, that’s fine, but what makes you think that we need to know that? Are you hoping someone will tell you that they all suck and you were right? Why would you need that affirmation? The part where you say you didn’t like a game makes perfect sense to me; after that I get lost.

Eufloria is more about aristry than gameplay. It might not be the greatest small strategy game out there but it’s one of the most visually interesting. It’s how you get someone like me to play a 4X game (just as Flotilla is how you get someone like me to play a small skirmish game).

Bought, even though I had Cthulhu from Steam Halloween sale. Worth it for Eufloria alone I reckon. Also bought Humble Introversion for Dredmor, think I had the rest in that pack already. With Indieroyale, humble bundles, and steam sales, I’m now up to many multiples of what I can reasonably play in the half a lifetime I have remaining to me, yet I’m shelling out less than when I bought half a dozen new(ish) games a year a decade ago. Fantastic for me, and probably good for Indies who wouldn’t have got as big a share of my spend then, but not sure about how the economics of giving away games for about a dollar a time will work out long term. If everyone thinks, like me, “why buy Skyrim now when I can get 5 games for a fiver instead, and buy it 6-18 months later for a quarter of the price”, then the AAA market collapses, and certain sorts of games won’t be made anymore, but until then it’s a buyer’s paradise.

If you’re worried about this, you can stop worrying about it immediately. The only place this could lead to a market collapse (or very drawn out collapse – stick with me) in the PC microcosm of the gaming industry. And even then, Skyrim would be the kinda game to stick around, what we’d lose would be the activision/ea cross-platform titles.

Ultimately not good, but it’s a movement we’re already hinting towards with all that’s occurred (60$ COD PC, the shutdown of dedicated servers, BF3 being what it is, etc). Fortunately for me, these are rearely if ever the games I care about.

For me, I’ve found a pretty solid balance of sub-$15 kinda games = PC purchases, $60 releases = console purchases. And the latter has fallen to slim pickings indeed; this year I bought… … Portal 2, Metal Gear Collection, and Skyrim.Whereas I’ve bought, maybe 5 PC games, plus every available bundle, spent a lesser amount of money, and enjoyed just as much time spent gaming.

And honestly, as far as I see it, it’s pretty sustainable. Least until another market game changer gets introduced, be that a functional onlive or new wave of consoles or what have you.

I’m totally freaking out with this. Since a couple of days ago I can’t access the website, It just stays loading forever in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

I tried getting in via email, using one of the key links provided when I bought the first two bundles and It worked, I went to the main page from there and worked, so I could buy the bundle this time but after paying with paypal it got freezed and now I can’t even access with my former keys. Since the contact page is on the same website I can’t reach them either so posting here this in full despair is the only way I can think of to reach any help.

Excuse me If you consider this spam and all that, but seeing how I paid for the three bundles and now I face this has completely driven me crazy.

I got to make contact with the support service, so I hope they solve the problem for me.

I usually use Google Chrome and consider Internet Explorer one of the most terrible piece of software on all the history of computer development. I just tried it because it comes installed by default (thanks, Microsoft).

Thank you both for your help, and sorry to mess up the conversation with my problems!

Just to say that Really Big Sky does not work with X360CE, so you need an actual XBOX 360 pad or you are on mouse and keyboard duty. I’ve emailled them but twitter suggests they are going to shift the blame to MMF2, but we wait and see.

I don’t know anything about coding, but can it be that hard to make a game work with all pads, are the inputs really that different? Probably.